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# filth

«filth» in Mova's school dictionary: **very bad, disgusting dirt** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (filth — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Filth is very bad, disgusting dirt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#m1)

2) (informal) Filth is rude, offensive words, pictures or talk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#m2)

3) (UK slang, rude, offensive) «The filth» is a rude word for the police; it is insulting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it shows poverty or neglect (filth in the streets of Victorian London); in science and health, dirt and germs. In speech, adults may call rude jokes or magazines «filth». Phrases: covered in filth, live in filth, (slang) the filth.

### examples

- The pigsty was full of filth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#x1)
- Victorian streets were covered in filth and smoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#x2)
- Wash the filth off your boots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#x3)
- Germs grow in filth, so we keep the kitchen clean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#x4)
- Grandad called the rude song «filth» and turned it off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#x5)
- (UK slang, rude) In the TV drama the robber shouted, «Run, it's the filth!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Adjective: filthy (very dirty). «Filthy rich» (informal) means very rich. The police meaning is offensive slang; do not use it.

### In the corpora

- [It hath wearied itself with toil; yet its great filth goeth not forth out of it, yea, its noisome filth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.633/)
- [Oppressed is Ephraim, crushed in his right; because he willingly walked after filth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.69/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «filth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.